Radiator



P. J. TUCKER.

RADIATOR.

APPLlCATION FILED APR. 29, 1918.

1,337,337. Patented Apr. 20, 1920..

EN 0R UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PHILIP J. TUCKER, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO TUCKER & BONNER, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, A PARTNERSHIP COMPOSED OF PHILIP J. TUCKER AND WILLIAM J. BONNER.

RADIATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 20, 1920.

To oZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIP J. TUCKER, a

citizen of the United States, residing at.

Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and Improved Radiator, of which the foilowing is a specification.

My invention relates to the class of devices that are used for changing the temperature of fluids and it is especially adapted for use in cooling liquids, particularly in connection with gas engines, and an object of the invention, among others, is to provide a device of this class that may be made to perform its functions although damaged to a greater or lesser extent.

One form of device embodying my invention and in the construction and use of which the objects herein set out, as well as others, may be attained, is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a 'view in rear elevation of a radiator embodying my invention, a portion of the radiating plates (and in the upper section only) being shown.

Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same.

Fig. 3 is a rear view, scale enlarged, of one of my improved radiating sections, showing an inlet tube at the top.

Fig. i is a detail view in cross section through a radiator section on plane denoted by dotted line 4.-& of Fig. 3.

My invention is especially applicable for use in connection with motor trucks now largely employed for transporting freight and by reason of which it is of vast importance that the vehicles shall be able to reach their destination in the shortest space of time, it being possible to quickly repair a damaged radiator, constructed in accordance with my invention, sufficiently to enable the vehicle to travel a substantial distance to reach a repair station.

In the accompanying drawings the numeral 5 indicates the base of my improved radiator that may be constructed in any desired manner and that has, preferably pro jecting from its rear surface, a nipple 6 to receive a connection from the water acket of an engine. 7 indicates the dome of the radiator and 8 a nipple that is also connected with the water jacket of an engine, both the base and dome being of any preferred form and type common to radiators in general use.

in practising my invention 1 construct a radiator of several separate and distinct sections 9, each of these sections having chambers 10 for the reception of fluid at each end thereof. These chambers may be of any width desired and they will be of a depth substantially that of the section. The chainbers in each section are connected by a number of circulating tubes 11 preferably arranged in rows both crosswise and in the direction of depth in each section. These tubes pass through radiating plates 12 that may be of any desired construction, as shown herein, these plates extending diagonally each of the other and of the tubes, and as clearly shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings.

Each of the sections is provided with an inlet nipple 13 and an outlet nipple 1%. The dome 7 is provided with an outlet nipple 15 and the base 5 has an inlet nipple 16. These nipples are located at opposite ends of the sections and communicate with the chambers therein. In the structure shown in Figs. 1 and 2 the nipples a e located at the bottoms of the chambers but they may communicate with the chamber at any point desired from the top to the bottom thereof, Fig. 3 showing them as located at the top and bottom. These nipples project outwardly from the dome, the base, and the sections at the rear side thereof and preferably a bend is made in the direction of depth of the radiator as a whole. These nipples are connected by unions 1'7 which may be of any desired material, as rubber or metal, and the location of the nipples at the outer surface of the radiator enables ready access to the unions for the purpose of repair, or for connecting and disconnecting for any purpose.

It will be seen that, if a radiator section is jammed or damaged to an extent to rupture the tubes to prevent circulation therein, a union may readily be made from a' radiator section on one side of the damaged section to a radiator section on the other side thereof. A rubber tube. carried for the purpose, will enable this union to be readily made, and it may be made at the same ends of the radiator section or it may be extended diagonally across the damaged section from one end of one radiator section to the opposite end of the other radiator section.

The radiator sections may be secured together in any desired manner, bolts 18 passing through lips or flanges on the dome and base and secured by nuts being shown herein as a satisfactory means for securing this result.

In accordance with the provisions of the patent statutes, I have described the principles of operation of my invention, together With the device which I now consider to represent the best embodiment thereof; but I desire to have it understood that the device shown is only illustrative, and that the invention may be carried out by other means.

I claim:

1. A radiator section comprising circulating tubes, and an inlet and an outlet nipple projecting from the outer surface thereof each being adapted to receive a connection from an adjacent section, said nipples being arranged to receive an independent connection bridging across a section.

2. A radiator section comprising chambers oppositely located therein, circulating tubes connecting said chambers, an inlet communicating With the chamber at one end of the section, and an outlet communicating with the chamber at the opposite end of the section, said inlet and outlet being adapted to receive connections from adjacent sections, said inlet and outlet also being ar ranged to receive an independent connection bridging across a section.

3. A radiator comprising a plurality of sections of similar construction each having an inlet and outlet nipple, a flexible connection to join the inlet and outlet nipples of adjacent sections, said nipples being arranged to receive a flexible connection of a length to bridge across an intermediate section.

4. A radiator comprising a number of sections of similar construction, each section having an inlet and outlet nipple projecting from one face and each nipple terminating in a vertical end to receive a flexible connection for joining adjacent sections and also to receive a flexible connection of a length to bridge across an intermediate section.

PHILIP J. TUCKER. 

